scoobles Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Quote A total of 4,445,149 supporters went to 788 matches including play-offs, which marks a rise of 4,247,467 from the previous year. SPFL reveal crowds increased by 5 per cent in season 2017/18 Good news as league chiefs attempt to secure a new TV deal. In the Ladbrokes Premiership, total attendances rose by almost half a million, with 3,631,982 passing through the turnstiles at 228 regular season matches, up more than 14 per cent on the previous season’s aggregate of 3,184,955. Scottish football crowds went up by five per cent in the season just past, the league has revealed. Ten of the 12 Ladbrokes Premiership clubs each notched up a year-on-year increase. Only Dundee and St Johnstone experienced decreases. Motherwell were the pick of the bunch regarding increases, with crowds up by 28 per cent. The news comes as a boost as the Scottish Professional Football League attempt to secure a new and improved TV deal, which runs out in 2020. The SPFL also announced nearly four and a half million people attended games across the four divisions. A total of 4,445,149 supporters went to 788 matches including play-offs, which marks a rise of 4,247,467 from the previous year. With figures like those we should ignore BT and Sky and chase Netflix, Amazon etc https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/spfl-reveal-crowds-increased-5-12572205 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Quote Former Rangers defender Clint Hill will join up with Joey Barton to become part of Fleetwood's coaching staff. (Daily Record) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44207578 Todays tenuous sevco story in the papers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Some peak Chris 'Onion' Jack jingoism around the seating allocations for Old Firm games at Ibronx. Quote The loyalty, the backing – both financial and emotional – from supporters should never be taken for granted by those that run our sport or our clubs. At Ibrox, it certainly can’t be questioned as the Light Blue legions, through all the ups and downs, have rallied round in recent years. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16252988.Chris_Jack__Rangers_board_right_to_look_after_their_own_in_Old_Firm_ticket_debate/?ref=mr&lp=7 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Our national broadcaster's commitment to promoting Scottish football shines through yesterday as the Under 21s were playing in the Toulon tournament in the afternoon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wastecoatwilly Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 (edited) Sky sports at it's best Edited May 28, 2018 by wastecoatwilly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Koop Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44304566 That moment when your team joins the landing party and the boss decides it's the only one wearing a red shirt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 This shouldn't be diificult 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 I think I've mentioned this before but this just reeks of BBC Old Firm bias. Top two teams meet in the SWPL, a small article containing just 4 paragraphs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44102335 Two midtable teams meet in the SWPL and we getting a sprawling 21 paragraph article just because the two teams happen to be called Rangers and Celtic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44349797 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 BBC today, at least it is a team beginning with S. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 9 hours ago, Eednud said: BBC today, at least it is a team beginning with S. Scotland U21s v England U21s in the semi-final of the Toulon tournament tomorrow obviously isn't worth mentioning. At least they're consistent in ignoring it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Compare the “story” to the actual quotes. report: will seek talks with Rangers basis: “i’ll Speak to all the teams” https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44383920 The beeb is officially tabloid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 7 minutes ago, coprolite said: Compare the “story” to the actual quotes. report: will seek talks with Rangers basis: “i’ll Speak to all the teams” https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44383920 The beeb is officially tabloid. They're definitely heading that way - but they'll only truly reach tabloid nirvana when they are cranking out 8 pieces a day that have the same picture of Gerard and follow the headline formula "<Ex-Rangers Talking Head> says <something fucking obvious about Steven Gerard>" "Dado Prso says Steven Gerard must sign some players" "Erik Bo Andersson says Steven Gerard needs to challenge Celtic" "Derek Johnstone says Steven Gerard must mime along to the sash at supporters club do's" 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 22 minutes ago, coprolite said: The beeb is officially tabloid. Hasn't that been the case for a long time? I'm not sure why a publicly funded organisation feels the need to be such a clickbait whore, but there we have it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JTS98 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 41 minutes ago, coprolite said: The beeb is officially tabloid. This level of output is consistent with Kenny McIntyre's dramatic shouty voice on Sportsound. KM: Motherwell lost 1-0 at the weekend, (begin dramatic shouty voice here) Michael Stewart, WILL they be relegated, SHOULD the manager be shot, and CAN Motherwell be allowed to continue to exist as a town? MS: (As ever, sounding quite baffled by his cartoonish colleague) Well, Kenny. I'm fairly sure Motherwell will continue to exist as a to... KM: But SHOULD it, Michael? SHOULD it? MS: Well, I don't see why not. It's home to tens of thousa... KM: That's all well and good, Michael. But DOES the continued existence of the town not mean that EVERY ONE of those residents is complicit in the SHOCKING performance of THEIR football team last weekend? Surely, it MUST be wiped FROM. THE. MAP? MS: (sigh) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddist Monk Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 58 minutes ago, coprolite said: The beeb is officially tabloid. The one thing that separates them from every other media outlet is something that normally hampers them, and that's their reluctance to publish stories which have neither been officially announced or corroborated across the board. This means shit rags like the Record or Sun will run with their "exclusives" which are nothing more than paper thin cynical attempts to clickbait the populace, while the BBC will sit on their hands. Many times this means them being beaten to the punch, but it also (possibly inadvertently) shields it from some of the more ridiculous news traps. Not that I am a complete defender of the BBC, but purely down to it's own internal processes it's not really a tabloid. I can see how the premise can at least be partly justified though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Have to agree with McIntyre here tbf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 45 minutes ago, Swello said: They're definitely heading that way - but they'll only truly reach tabloid nirvana when they are cranking out 8 pieces a day that have the same picture of Gerard and follow the headline formula "<Ex-Rangers Talking Head> says <something fucking obvious about Steven Gerard>" "Dado Prso says Steven Gerard must sign some players" "Erik Bo Andersson says Steven Gerard needs to challenge Celtic" "Derek Johnstone says Steven Gerard must mime along to the sash at supporters club do's" They may use slightly different pics on the website but we're there already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 13 hours ago, JTS98 said: This level of output is consistent with Kenny McIntyre's dramatic shouty voice on Sportsound. KM: Motherwell lost 1-0 at the weekend, (begin dramatic shouty voice here) Michael Stewart, WILL they be relegated, SHOULD the manager be shot, and CAN Motherwell be allowed to continue to exist as a town? MS: (As ever, sounding quite baffled by his cartoonish colleague) Well, Kenny. I'm fairly sure Motherwell will continue to exist as a to... KM: But SHOULD it, Michael? SHOULD it? MS: Well, I don't see why not. It's home to tens of thousa... KM: That's all well and good, Michael. But DOES the continued existence of the town not mean that EVERY ONE of those residents is complicit in the SHOCKING performance of THEIR football team last weekend? Surely, it MUST be wiped FROM. THE. MAP? MS: (sigh) That was very good. The tabloid idea is also entirely consistent with the sport inserts on Radio Scotland news. The standard format is to deliver some banal quote as a bombastic statement; before adding "that's according to" somebody who once played but has never had a thought in his life. It's the very definition of tabloid broadcasting. I've said it before, but I don't just think that this has been a gradual drift; I think a very conscious decision was made over a year ago to behave this way. It pisses me off, because the BBC should be above it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpma Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 19 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: I've said it before, but I don't just think that this has been a gradual drift; I think a very conscious decision was made over a year ago to behave this way. It pisses me off, because the BBC should be above it. Well, I think it's been happening for much longer than a year, and I strongly suspect its driven by Upper Management who are far removed from reality. Someone has decreed that a KPI for their web services is the number of clicks generated per day, and to keep their jobs the journalists have to meet these targets. I suspect that some very good journalists are dying a little every day as they have to put up such clickbait crap to satisfy poorly thought out performance criteria and keep their jobs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I'm going to add this from Sky's Transfer Centre live ticker. It's an out-dated logo for an article about Alan Stubbs... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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